The disfranchisement of the elderly, and other attempts to secure intergenerational justice

Article Abstract:

An analysis of intergenerational justice, which could be described as a facet of the consequentialist research and action program, is conducted. The program is a combination of the Rawls and Machiavellian component of social justice. Rawls' concept articulates equal concern and equal respect while Machiavelli's refers to political institutions that shape the right collective outcome. It turns out that disfranchising the elderly is only one of at least seven different ways to change the balance of electoral power between various age categories. Enfranchising younger people is proven to be a good idea that would allow intergenerational justice.

Aged, Elderly, Services, Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Institutions and the demands of justice

Article Abstract:

It is argued that all fundamental normative principles that apply to the design of institutions are also applicable to the conduct of people. This is in sharp contrast to John Rawls' statement that the principles of justice for institutions should not be confused with those principles that apply to individuals. The same criterion has always been used by utilitarians in evaluating both institutions and personal conduct. In much the same manner, legal, political and other social institutions must not constitute a separate normative realm.

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A relatively plausible principle of beneficence: reply to Mulgan

Article Abstract:

A response to the comments of Tim Mulgan on 'The Demands of Beneficence maintained that the Cooperative Principle may have the most relative probability. It also asserted that Mulgan's contentions are not applicable to all forms of collective consequentialism but rather only against a moral theory categorically motivated by the Compliance Condition, such as the Cooperative Principle.

Consequentialism (Ethics), Benevolence

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